A pumpkin display in Woodstock.I'm still thinking about what to do for Halloween. Since it falls on a Saturday this year, I feel compelled to be part of the holiday in some small way. Even though I am not a big fan of dressing up in costume, I can usually come up with something half-way amusing. (My best costume ever was Crazy Cat Lady in 2007.)
Vermont has a variety of Halloween parades, ghost walks and haunted tours. Good bets include the Rutland Halloween Parade, Queen City Ghost Walk in Burlington, and The Haunted Forest in Williston.
Another local favorite is the Cilley Hill Pumpkin Festival in Jericho on Oct. 30-31. Jericho residents Ann and Richard Stiles raise 400 to 600 pumpkins each year for the annual festival, which takes place after sundown on Cabbage Night and Halloween. The Stiles' neighbors and a local scout troop spend the weeks leading up to Halloween carving the pumpkins, which are then creatively displayed all over the neighborhood.
What will you be for Halloween this year?
My husband Dave and his younger brother Paul on Halloween, 1978.
I would continue to dress up if I thought I would still get candy each year!
ReplyDeleteWell Bill if you come down to Atkinson NH where I decorate my sisters house each Halloween then you would get candy... But you'd have to be in costume..
ReplyDeleteHi again Erica, I was going to mention the Cilley Hill Pumpkin festival and then I see a link here on the page and I thought cool.. I can see something by someone else... I click on it and low and behold it's my blog article on Yankee's foliage site.LoL
It was really tough for me because I traveled all the way up to Jericho VT on "Cabbage night" and then I drove back to Salem Ma (4 hours) and then got up a 6AM to drive up to NH to set up Halloween at my sisters in Atkinson... But it was so much fun and well worth it.. I plan to do it again real soon.
Jeff Foliage
Yankee Magazine
Hi Jeff,
ReplyDeleteYes, the pumpkin festival is so great. Definitely a local favorite up here!
Hi Erica, I didn't see a feedback form but I thought I would let you know that I'm not Yankee's foliage blogger anymore and they have taken down all the content that I wrote for them. So your link to their site up above is now broken. I have created my own fall foliage website and I'm rewriting my article and I've created a page (link below) if you want to change the link to a new location.
ReplyDeleteJeff Foliage (http://jeff-foliage.com/fall-festivals/cilley-hill-pumpkin-festival/) I'll be posting the blog post today or this weekend..